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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nOur friend gave us Densha Otoko<\/a> to watch, and I am totally into it! I was up again<\/i> until 4:30am last night watching. (I got up to episode 5) It’s even more addicting than Gokusen. The drama is based on a true story of an otaku, Yamada Tsuyoshi (Itoh Atsushi ) who has a chance meeting with a beautiful woman, Aoyama Saori (Itoh Misaki), and how he gets advice from his BBS (Internet chat room) on how to proceed with the relationship. It’s so funny to see all the otaku references, and neat to know that it is a true story. It must be somewhat altered to make it more over-the-top, as most Japanese dramas of this sort are, but still, it’s kind of cool.<\/p>\n There’s lots of funny parts, like when the Imperial March (from Star Wars) ringtone comes on when the bad person calls, or the reactions and expressions of the BBS denizens, including Nasubi! The scenes in Akihabara and all the other otaku scenes are hilarious as well. I like how they capture the feel of the chatroom, where most people are supportive, but there are a couple trolls as well. I like the main actors, and because Itoh Misaki is a babe<\/a>, even the slow parts in the story are not unpleasant to watch. :). She was in Gokusen 1 as the “pretty teacher”, btw.<\/p>\n Read more:
\nJ-Drama Wiki<\/a> (nice synopsis there)
\nOfficial Site at Fuji TV<\/a>
\nDensha Otoko Discussion thread at jdorama.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5WV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23370,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22873\/revisions\/23370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}